Town hall audience laughs at mention of Krugman

[Leftwith]

This is beyond hilarious.

The fun begins at about the minute mark.

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Adding to the story, Think Progress is using this vid to show how much dissent there is to the Ryan plan. Except they edited out the Krugman laughter part.

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[huisache]

given the campaign of derision directed at Krugman in the right wing echo chambers it is hardly surprising that an audience made up of tea party retirees is going to react that way.


I have a hard time buying in to most of what Krugman has to offer but being laughed at by a pack of old white retirees with Fox as their default setting is hardly evidence of anything.

 

[Leftwith]

You were able to glean all that info on complete strangers just from watching a one minute video?

Impressive!

By my estimation, the only thing we know for sure about them is that they are not left wing loons blindly buying into the rantings and ravings of a partisan liberal hack.

 

[Horn-N-LA]

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[ProdigalHorn]

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[huisache]

....and all the old folks there who are in favor of gutting social welfare programs but not medicare or social security know a lot more about economics than he does.

As I said, I am not a huge fan, but compared to most of what is being bandied about these days, his positions are defensible.

Or do you prefer more tax cuts because deficits don't matter?

Or unfunded prescription drug benefits in order to undercut your political opponents' plans in the next elections?

The amount of horrid, squalid economic info and tactics of the last 30 years makes derision an appropriate approach to everybody but Clinton and Lloyd Bentsen; the right wing echo chambers have chosen Krugman because of his platform and the fact that he is about the only unrepentant liberal still shouting from the barricades.

When some right winger comes up with a viable way out of this mess, I will join them in laughing at him

 

[ProdigalHorn]

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[huisache]

the best way out of this mess is to cut spending and that includes defense, and raise taxes.

Ryan favors cutting spending; more particularly, he favors dismantling the New Deal and Great Society safety net. That has been a right wing goal for decades, so nothing new there. He does not favor raising taxes, rather he wants to cut them some more, which is the voodoo economics bs that got us here.

I detest Clinton but he followed Bentsen's advice and got us out of the ditch the voodoo boys put us in.

The gop politicians know what they need to do but are scared to death of a part of their base. And Obama just says the current path is unsustainable and then does it again.

I am willing to listen to anybody and do. Tyler Cowan at George Mason is one conservative macro guy who I will pay a lot of serious attention to. Most of the rest of the world seems to be unwilling to step out of their respective echo chambers.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

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